LONG STRIKE LIKELY
Press Assn.-
American Coal Hold-up NEGOTIATION TRUCE URGED
By Telegraph
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Received Friday, 9.35 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 29. Washington reports state that Ihe Government is convinced that regardless of the, outcome of the c.ourt action against John L. Letvis, the strike will continue fro.m three to five weeks and is laying its coal conservation pians on that basis. One high Government official suggested that the strike would last for three months and declared that the Government was not discounting the p'ossibility of a- general strike. Mr. Edward Burke, president of thCSouthern Coal Producers' Association, urged -the Government to ask Lewis to call a fortnight's truce in the soft coal strike during which efforts could be made to negotiate a contract bctween the operators and the .union. Meanwhile a high Government official said the Government may ask Federal Judge Alan Goldsborough to hold an extraordinary Saturday court session to hasten the coiiclusion of Lewis 's contempt trial. The official doubted whether the proceedings could be completed on Friday.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 November 1946, Page 5
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